During our testing we used the new Corsair Vengeance Pro 2400Mhz 16GB kits.

Power Draw

The stock D3HP takes a fraction more power than the Intel board, but the major point has to be that even when overclocked the combination of i7-4770K and HD7970 takes 33 fewer Watts than the stock i7-3770K. The focus on power saving has certainly been worthwhile.

Temperatures

One thing we've discovered is that the i7-4770K is almost entirely thermally limited. Given that we're running the best cooling solution around, short of a dedicated water loop, this most definitely isn't a setup in which you want to scrimp on your CPU cooler.

Most Recent Comments

Man I love the new look of these Gigabyte boards! Makes me want to buy one just for that! About time they fancied up their boards a little. I know we're not supposed to care about such frivolous things but I cant help myself.

Looks good as the latest ad on the side panels of the forum too. Nicely done Gigabyte!Quote

It's just a matter of making the computer looking cleaner/better cable management and with vertical SATA ports you can't do it as easy. Performance is exactly the same if you were worried by that.Quote

Looks nice, but I have to say I have lost some confidence in Gigabyte recently. Their UEFI bios upgrades for slightly older boards (which are admittedly Beta..) are junk with less functionality than the BIOS. Also, after 3 years of service my GA-Z68XP-UD3 shat itself for no good reason.

I know all manufacturers have boards that fail, but it does cause you to lose confidence when it happens to you personally. DOA is sometimes expected and accepted, but a failure after a few years...

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